Daily Archives: August 24, 2009

The chairman of New York state’s Republican Committee says he’s not running for re-election in September. Joseph Mondello’s announcement comes after months of criticism of his tenure and a set of crushing defeats in the November 2008 elections. Mondello says ...

Shares of Flushing Financial Corp. fell on Monday after an analyst downgraded the thrift, saying the company maintains a light financial reserve despite its exposure to troubled loans in the metropolitan New York apartment market. After Matthew Kelley of Sterne ...

Airplane parts maker Joka Industries is buying a 20,000-square-foot building at 2120 Fifth Ave. in Ronkonkoma. The former home of Dunrite Systems was on the market for $2 million. Joka is relocating from smaller quarters at 65 Knickerbocker Ave. in ...

What do Stony Brook University and Howard University, Washington, D.C.’s historic black school, have in common? They both came in at a flat-footed tie for 96th on U.S. News & World Report’s annual list of top national universities. Stony Brook ...

The Federal Reserve Bank of New York has named a top state labor union official its chairman, the bank announced Monday. Denis M. Hughes, president of the New York State AFL-CIO, has been deputy chairman since January 2007. He became ...

To gauge consumers’ strain, look no further than the rows and rows of plastic bags awaiting layaway payments at Kmart. They are filled with back-to-school basics — not just T-shirts and jeans but notebooks, magic markers and pencils. It is ...

Metropolitan Realty Associates has moved its headquarters from Garden City to Jericho. Metropolitan, whose holdings include the Sunrise Business Center in Great River and the Business and Research Center of Garden City, has moved into the Jericho Atrium, another building ...

Nassau County Executive Tom Suozzi reportedly told a group assembled at a Buffalo law firm that Gov. David Paterson won’t run for reelection because he has no chance to overcome his disastrous poll numbers. According to a New York post ...

Rep. Peter King, You Tube star, has released a new video decrying President Obama’s attempt to create a national health care system and arguing that while the president is willing to work out a deal on the issue, the left-wingers ...